We stayed one night at Hoho Kam RV Park in Coolidge, AZ
where I got to see a couple old high school friends. Penny has a pecan farm that she took over
after her dad passed away. We got a tour
of the pecan harvest operation which was very interesting. Then we went over to another friends house,
Brenda who lives in Coolidge and spent a couple hours catching up on the last
35 years or so. So good to see these old
friends and reminisce about old times and learn about their current lives.
Because the weather was so hot and we saw the two people we
wanted we only stayed in Coolidge one night.
Our next stop was Temecula, CA to see my cousin who had moved there from
Coolidge/Tucson a couple of years ago.
It took 2 days to make it to Temecula.
We stayed just across the California/Arizona border at Mayflower County
Park in Blythe, CA. $30 for Electric and
water, a pretty nice place on the Colorado River, especially since there were
not many campers there. The next day we
continued on to Temecula and set up camp at Skinner Lake, a county park. Nice park but got extremely crowded on the
weekend. Since the sites are close together we had tentes right up close to
us. We were given a site in loop A which
turned out to be a mixture of RV’s and tent camping. Next time I would request to stay in Look B
or C. They seemed to be all RV’s. A lot more civilized camping there. I spent two days with my cousin Sharon and
met her 4 grandchildren. She took us on
a tour of Historic Temecula and with beautiful weather we thoroughly enjoyed
ourselves. After spending several hours at
over old photos at Sharon’s house we said our goodbyes and headed back to
camp. The next day we drove less that
200 miles to Ventura, CA where we have our summer workamping volunteer
jobs. I had a lot of anxiety about
driving through the Los Angeles area with our rig. We decided to go a little out of our way to
go around LA and it turned out not to be too bad. The East side of LA was heavy traffic but
once we got on the North side it wasn’t so bad.
After getting set up in our host site at Emma Wood State Beach the head
Ranger came by to meet with us.
Sharon's Mastiff, Sadie
Our camp site has a view of the ocean; we are set back from
the ocean roughly 250 feet. Instead of
sandy beach front, it is covered with river rock. Down the beach a ways is sandy beach. Our site is sandwiched between highway 101
and an Amtrak railroad track with many trains running throughout the day. Ventura is a bike friendly city so we bought
bikes. The hike and bike trail runs from
San Diego all the way up the coast to San Francisco. The promenade and Ventura Pier is 2 ½ miles
from us, an easy bike ride. A very
pretty place with palm trees and plenty of beach for barefoot walking. The weather is nice most days, around 70
degrees. But when the wind blows it get
pretty chilly. We have been training
with the winter camp host this week; Sandy is a real sweet lady that has a 5th
wheel. She heads out next week to her
summer job in Colorado. Norm and I
worked the Kiosk here by ourselves 2 days this week. There is another kiosk at North Beach about
1.5 miles up the beach that we will also work.
It is a much busier campground with 90 RV sites, dry camping only. They also have a day use area. It’s real close to the beach, very nice
views, dolphins swimming by, surfers and if we’re lucky we may see a whale
traveling North. The migrate January
thru mid April. Norm and I walk down to
the beach in front of our site most evenings and we saw an Orca whale that was
very close to shore. It was
amazing.
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